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Completed survey case study

Detached bungalow ASHP survey with electrical headroom constraints

A real DN36 bungalow job where the key issue was obvious: no spare ways, tight electrical headroom, and more than one siting option to review.

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Property snapshot

Survey record baseline

Property typeDetached bungalow, 2 floors, 11 rooms (2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms)
Age band1967-1975
Heating baselineGas boiler combi at time of survey, with no hot-water cylinder recorded
ElectricalSingle phase, 60A main fuse, 0 spare ways, meter and consumer-unit position in entrance hall area
Plan referencePlanUp ID 703218386 with 4 floorplan captures in the survey record
DeliveryChecked PDF report issued through the Vertex Portal
What made this job notable

Why this bungalow needed a careful survey

  • The source record flagged zero spare ways, so electrical headroom had to be visible early for design and office review.
  • Two ASHP siting entries were captured in one job record, requiring clear side-by-side visibility for decision making.
  • Four floorplan captures plus PlanUp linkage had to stay aligned to room-level evidence and technical sections.
What Vertex captured

What was captured in the report

Room-level structure

An 11-room layout recorded clearly enough for design and install teams to use the same report.

Electrical evidence

Main fuse, phase type, spare-way count, meter position, and consumer-unit location grouped for fast review.

Siting + floorplan

Two ASHP siting options and a linked floor-plan set kept together in the same record.

Why structure matters

Why the layout of the report mattered here

On a no-spare-way job, the electrics cannot be buried halfway through the file. The team needs to find the problem fast and see the siting and floor-plan context beside it.

This record also kept PlanUp reference 703218386 and four floor-plan captures tied to the same job, rather than splitting them across separate threads.

Installer takeaway

What the installer got out of it

When electrical headroom is tight and there is more than one siting option, a clear report saves the team from going back over the same questions again.

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Quality check

Why the electrical evidence had to lead the report

A detached bungalow can look like a simple heat pump survey, but zero spare ways and a 60A supply change how the installer reviews the job. The report needed to make that constraint visible before the team spent time on assumptions that might not survive electrical review.